Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-10-20

Iy into square pavilions. The extension
now includes on the Fifth street front
Armory Hall also, and beyond that two ad-
ditional pavil0ns, companions in form to
the four pavilions of the original plan,
making, as before stated, a frontage on
Fifth street of 2l0 feet. Imagine such
magnificent proportions, broken by the
pavilion towers, by projecting minarets. by
archcd op enings and immense panels; be-
hind them rising In relief the great ioof;
above all the towering cupola and spire,
connected in relief with the pavilions with
| flying buttresses- Imagine these proper
tions clothed all about with the products
OF the corntield and decked out with these
In profusion OF beauty-one grand, har-
monious whole, O stately witness Of the
bursting bounty of the empire of the North
west, the re lin of King Corn. 1t is q
spectacle to enchain attention, to command
admiration.
Take the great fronts Of the structure on
Fifth and jackson streets, and none who
have not seen would believe that such
magical effects could be wrought out of the
materials of the cornfeld. Take the 30
feet frontage on Fifth street, and every
square inch of il is wrought into some
cunning and representative form of the
king of products. The walls rise one lar
monious, though varie9ated, mass of the
stalk and leaf; at the base, wicker work,
green as the rushes Of the Nile, and here
and there, pendent, in rich contrast, are
the golden ears. The double arches of the
openings in the pavilions are faced with
rows OF ears, sometimes richly fringed
with the husk, sometimes of one color and
sometimes of another. Then, the great
panels in the body of the wall and the
columns rising high TO the batilement-
here is one OF the special marvels of the
unique creation, or rather scores of mar
yels. In each OF score of these panels o:
divisions there is wrought some design
here diamond ard there a checker, here
motto and there some other in
sciption-wrought from corn of dozen
kinds and a dozen hues-golden yellow
pure white. blood red, violet and SO on.
Against thCs, ingenious forms Of beauty
stands the quiet but none the less effective
beauty of the corn -clad column s, broken by
the columns around which are bound the
russet blades of the corn plant and grace
ful combination of grains and grasses.
Along the upper line of the front runs q
shiny hem of oats, interspersed in places
by the dark seeds of the sorghum plant,
corn ears o. flaming red or some other re-
lieving color. Still ahQye, rise the graceful
Riirsses,,~ CONFERENCE.-The ri~ll-oalors of native
and flying banners. In the background
rises the root. a seeming solid mass OF corn
almost, and from it towers the cupola, its
arches wrought like those below, and here
and there panels OF curious forms of corn,
red, white, violet, yellow and all colors
under the sun, surrounded and interviewer
with the plant itself and other products in
every conceivable shape.
Passing to the interior of the great
structure, amazement finds fresh stimulus
at every turn. There hangs a sunfower,
perfect in form and color, yet every fiber
from the corn plant. Yonder are the tiger
lilies, of the same element, illusion per-
fect-who would have believed it? Every
where, bouquets, panels, ceilings, notices,
draperies, pendants, stars, statues of
Gers, bells, latticework, beaded curtains,
all forms of farmers implements-every
last one made OF the corn or of the plants
that grow with it. As you enter the wide
portal, above will be the seal official of the
ciy-every bar and coloring made OF corn;
beyond, o great spider and his web will be
Spreau out move; rtiif higher hunHS
mammoth hell; to the left there is tableau
of "The Golden Stair" further on, the
figure of an Indian and an eagle-all made
and dressed with the blade and grain and
stalk of corn. One great mlrvel of the
scene will be landscape, "The Setting
Sum-" the great orb itself made all of corn,
the beams shot with the brilliancy of the
grain, and the perspective executed with
such skill as TO deceive the keenest eye.
These are Iut samples. A hundred other
curious shapes and fantasies would weary
the onlooker if all were not so new, so
strangely made out of material so long
thought common and despised, yet now
found to outblush the rose and shame the
lily.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.